From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I always remind myself that for those in the Army at least, their secondary
MOS is rifleman and begrudge them not.


"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:43dbf83c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> You really don't understand what it is like and have no idea what is
>> their base pay when you talk about competitive.
>
> Actually, I do, I'm the son of an Air Force guy who has lots of relatives
> in other branches of the military, and you know what, they *all* went into
> the military because it was the only way to get out of the coal mines of
> West Virginia and to make a livable wage, so in their case, not only was
> the pay competitive, it was better than private industry. (as it is with a
> lot of people, probably most)
>
>>It is only used in rates that are
>> very technical and have long schools.
>
> Kind of like my specialty you mean?  (I was comparing my specialty and
> work situation, so it's a given that I would be comparing myself to the
> same in the military.)
>
> --
> Bob Comer
>
>
> "George Sherwood"  wrote in message
> news:pan.2006.01.28.22.20.21.55161{at}beernabeer.com...
>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:12:13 -0500, Robert Comer wrote:
>>
>>>> And how many 6 months deployments have you made over that 6 month
>>>> period?
>>>
>>> 6 months worth, I'm on call 24x7x365, not to mention being in the office
>>> most of the time and working from home a LOT too.
>>
>> When I was 6 months overseas, I would have loved to be working from my
>> home.
>>
>>>
>>>> Are you telling me they don't deserve it?
>>>
>>> If you compare it to private industry, then no, they don't.  You were
>>> the
>>> one that brought up that they got it to be competitive...
>>>
>>> Whether they deserve it or not really doesn't matter, they wouldn't be
>>> getting as many re-ups without it.
>>
>> You really don't understand what it is like and have no idea what is
>> their base pay when you talk about competitive. And you really don't
>> understand how few guys get this bonus. It is only used in rates that are
>> very technical and have long schools. Out of my two year command tour
>> with
>> probably 30 re-enlistments, probably 5 or 6 got checks and this is in an
>> aviation command.  Ships would be less and subs probably more.
>>
>> George
>
>

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